ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of Josiah Royce. He was born at Grass Valley, California, in 1855. He studied at the University of California and at Johns Hopkins, became an instructor in philosophy at Harvard in 1882, and taught at Harvard until his death in 1916. He was the leading American exponent of philosophical Idealism, which he espoused in a very large number of works. Among his most important books are The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, The Conception of God, Studies of Good and Evil, which includes "The Problem of Job" reprinted here, The World and the Individual, The Philosophy of Loyalty, and Lectures on Modern Idealism. In speaking of the problem of Job, the present writer comes to the subject as a layman in theology, and as one ignorant of Hebrew scholarship.
